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But I agree with HTRegz, on Windows, XAMPP is really nice. I've used both the manual and XAMPP and found XAMPP to be almost headache free. I've only ever used it on development machines, not servers though.

If you're the type of idiot that "uses Chrome for a browser because it's targeted less than IE and Firefox"

Then you might want to keep in mind that web based shells usually have Linux purely in mind. And there always seems to be a billion times more opportunity to escalate privileges under that type of environment.

Please read AGAIN my signature, only carefuly this time round. If you want to show off the fact that you've learned some smart words like "Linux", "escalate privileges" etc, then, PLEASE, go somewhere else.

I happen to have a very high opinion about this forum and those here who DO actualy help others, so please don't waste the effort these people put in and don't behave like a complete tosser.

My regards

To HTRegz and Slartarama

I was going to do exactly as you advise if I didn't resolve the issue till the end of today, so will set up XAMPP now

If I where to run Apache and PHP on Windows or OSX... then put up a bunch of scripts vulnerable to remote file inclusion then allow people to run whatever they want. It would still remain pretty much untouched. Quite frankly, it's mainly because most people would give up on trying to find a localized flaw on those platforms in order really accomplish anything.

So what people should start doing is taking the same silly mentality that they have of other varying software products... and ditch the entire concept of using Linux as a server platform.

Please read AGAIN my signature, only carefuly this time round. If you want to show off the fact that you've learned some smart words like "Linux", "escalate privileges" etc, then, PLEASE, go somewhere else.

Then you might want to keep in mind that web based shells usually have Linux purely in mind. And there always seems to be a billion times more opportunity to escalate privileges under that type of environment.